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Wildlife Health Damages Due to PCBs

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"In the Fox River and Green Bay, injuries to wildlife [due to PCBs] are well documented. They include cancer in walleye, deformities in terns, and fatalities to unhatched bald eagles, Forster's terns, common terns, and double-crested cormorants. These injuries have resulted in consumption advisories for every species of sport fish, and waterfowl consumption advisories for mallard ducks." 
(David Allen, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)

Generally, fish and fish-eating birds and animals are at the top of the food chain, and are the most contaminated with PCBs, and most at risk of health damage. 

Certain creatures are much more susceptible, such as mink and otter who eat fish.

Some wildlife studies are posted as subsets of the Human Health Effects section, under individual diseases.
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Links to More Information

  • U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Research --- The following are the Service's detailed reports documenting PCB health damages to fish, wildlife and resources of the Fox River and Green Bay.  They are large pdf files which require Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available for free downloading.  Unfortunately, it will take a while for slower modems to download these reports, and they do use quite a bit of memory.   For more information, call the Service's local project manager for the Fox River and Green Bay NRDA, Collette Charbonneau, at 920-465-7410.
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The International Association of Great Lakes Researchers 

The following are abstracts of PCB research (or related research) on wildlife in the Great Lakes Region, on the Association's website.  In many cases, the full text of the studies are available below the abstract. Bold Text indicates studies conducted on Green Bay, the Fox River or Lake Michigan.  (Note: this is not a complete list of all research conducted on our system.)

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